bbaker2

Username: bbaker2

Participant details

	Network Member	Brett Baker
	Organisation/Institution	University of New England
	Department/Centre	Linguistics/School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
	Lab
	Website	http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~bbaker2/
	Research area	Linguistics Phonology
	Research keywords	phonology, morphology, formal theories of grammar, Australian Indigenous languages

Research Interests

My primary interest is the interface of morphology with other grammatical and conceptual systems: phonology and semantics. Most of my work in this area has involved fieldwork on Australian languages of Southeastern Arnhem Land, which are highly polysynthetic but have largely agglutinative ('lego-like') word structures. I am particularly interested in the differences between morphology which is accessible to speakers and morphology which is not, and how this plays out in testable ways: in phonology, prosody, compositionality, productivity, and isolability. My paper with Mark Harvey from the Australian Journal of Linguistics (2003, vol 23, 1) explored this area, using some of the argumentation from my PhD work (due to be published by CSLI later this year). I have also been interested in discourse semantics and pragmatics for many years, and am currently engaged in work with Ilana Mushin (UQ), Rod Gardner (Griffith) and Lesley Stirling (Melbourne) exploring this topic, again mostly in Australian languages.

Representative Publications

Publications page: http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~bbaker2/